Karthik Subbaraj
, the director who impressed the Tamil audiences with his unique movies “
Jigarthanda
,” “
Pizza
” and Iraivi,” has been directing superstar “
Rajinikanth
” in his next movie titled “Petta.” The film has the beautiful star cast of “
Simran
,”
Vijay Sethupathi
,
Trisha Krishnan
, “
M Sasikumar
,”
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
,
Bobby Simha
,
Megha Akash
,
Deepak Paramesh
,
Sananth Reddy
, “
J Mahendran
,” Munishkanth “Ramdoss” and
Guru Somasundaram
. The shooting has been going at a brisk pace in Varanasi. Recently some stills and videos from the shooting spot had been leaked online. It is heard that the popular news channel Thanthi TV had published those leaked videos as news. On seeing this, Karthik Subbaraj and team are extremely shocked and the director posted it on his Twitter and expressed his discontent on Thanthi TV. Karthik posted, “kind request from #Petta team... Pls do not share leaked stills or videos from shooting spot... Need all your support. Shocked to see channels like @ThanthiTV are publishing leaked videos as news. Guess next they would even telecast pirated movies as news... Completely unethical...” Petta is produced by Sun Pictures and the music composition is by
Anirudh Ravichander
. The movie is highly expected to release in January 2019.